748 INDEX OF DISEASES AND REMEDIES 



BRONCHITIS, CHRONIC continued. 



Alcohol, caffeine, ether, volatile oils, digitalis, maintain heart-action in 

 weakly subjects. 



Inhalations of sulphurous acid, creosote, eucalyptus, and other anti- 

 septics, when secretions foetid. Intratracheal injections in parasitic 

 cases. 



Arsenic occasionally relieves emphysema. 



Careful dietary, nutritive oleaginous food, cod liver oil. 



Iron and other tonics promote convalescence. 

 BRONCHOCELE. GOITRE. 



Hypertrophy of thyroid gland. Rare in horses and cattle, more com- 

 mon in dogs. Often harmless. 



Local stimulation, iodine, pot. iodide. The milk of goats which have 

 been deprived of their thyroid glands. 



Puncture and inject with iodine (Cagny). 



Liberal dietary ; full proportion of fatty matters. Extirpation may be 

 necessary. 



BRUISES : CONTUSIONS. 



Medicated fomentations or poultices, water-dressing, refrigerants, car- 

 bolic and other antiseptics. Massage and subsequent inunction with 

 oil. 

 Lead, zinc, and other astringent solutions limit swelling and promote 



absorption. 



Belladonna, opium, and aconite are useful to relieve the pain. 

 BRUSHING or INTERFERING. 



Occurs in horses with faulty action, and in others when leg weary or 



out of condition. 



Careful shoeing. A plain shoe unnailed on the inner branch. A three- 

 quarter shoe, or a shoe thin on inside web, without heel on outside. 

 Well-fitting boot on the fetlock liable to be struck. 

 Improved condition often the most effectual remedy. 

 BULL.E. 



Pemphigus : Herpes : Eruption of large vesicles in irregular patches 

 about junction of skin and mucous membranes, usually connected 

 with gastric derangement, especially in young patients. Rare in 

 animals. 



Vaseline, ' Sanitas ' solution, carron oil. 



Laxatives and salines when connected with gastric derangement. 

 Adult horses subject to an inflammatory form passing to pustulation, 

 treated by laxative, alkaline wash, and zinc ointment. 



BURNS AND SCALDS. 



Protect immediately from air and irritants by layers of cotton wool or 

 application of carron oil. 



Liniment of oil and litharge, with two per cent, boric, or carbolic acid, 

 or peppermint oil. 



Whiting and water, or fuller's earth and oil, about consistence of cream, 

 applied repeatedly, until tolerable coating formed. 



Zinc oxide, with about ten parts of vaseline, or of glycerin and water. 



Alkaline solutions, soap lather, saturated solution sodium bicarbonate 

 relieve irritation in slighter cases. 



Where discharges are foul, add antiseptics to above dressings. 



Where there is irritation or pain, add chloroform or laudanum, or both. 



Combat constitutional symptoms with antiseptics and anodynes in- 

 ternally. Anticipate collapse and necrosis in severe cases. 

 BURSATTEE. 



Kunkur : A mycosis of the skin and siibcutaneous tissue, characterised 

 by the formation of small hard growths which eventually ulcerate 

 and suppurate ; affects horses and other animals in India and other 

 tropical countries. 



